The Seminole Tribe and the Miccosukee Tribe have started collecting the state's tax on tobacco products for the first time in 66 years.
The tax is $1.34 per pack of cigarettes. Sales on reservations are expected to bring in $20 million for the state.
Tribal members can still buy untaxed cigarettes. But then there is the increase in federal tobacco tax to address.
The Seminole Tribe hopes to negotiate a compact with the state to share some of the tobacco revenues. '"While that process is coming together, I think the tribe just in good faith has moved ahead to charge the tax,'" spokesperson Gary Bitner told The Miami Herald.
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Florida Indian tribes levying cigarette tax
(The Miami Herald 7/13)
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